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Author Spotlight: Interview with Clete Barrett Smith
A while back Ruby and I had the amazing opportunity to read an advanced copy of Aliens on Vacation and then have dinner with the author, Clete Barrett Smith. We loved his book and pestered him with...
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Author Spotlight: Interview with Erik Korhel
When you first meet author Erik Korhel, he comes across as quiet, subdued. When you open up one of his collections of poems, though, you realize he’s anything but. When we met Erik, he was doing a...
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Oh my Zeus! Is that a Greek god in that book?!
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan Really? you must be asking yourselves. Rick Riordan? Hasn’t the whole world pretty much reviewed his books, like, years ago? Well, yeah. But hey, I loved the books!...
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It’s Hard to Go Wrong with a Magic Castle
Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George Castle Glower is a strange, magical place: one day the kitchen may be just next to the throne room, and the next it may be down three flights of stairs and...
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Surviving Stormy Seas & Family Alike
The Great Wide Sea by M. H. Herlong When their mom is killed in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Ben Byron and his younger brothers Dylan and Gerry are devastated, struggling to put the pieces of their...
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What If Your Mind & Body Were No Longer Your Own?
Starters by Lissa Price (book one in Starters series) Review based on an Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) In a dystopian world in which only the very old and very young have survived, sixteen-year-old...
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A Beautiful & Authentic Midwestern Picture Book
It’s Milking Time by Phyllis Alsdurf, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher In the interest of full disclosure, I feel I should tell you something: I fell in love with It’s Milking Time before I...
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History Turns Into Itself in This Newbery Winner
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Jack Gantos has a whole summer planned full of baseball, history books, and war movies when suddenly, caught in the middle of his quarreling parents, he becomes...
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Action-packed Fantasy (with a bit of history and mythology, too)
The Dragon’s Tooth by N. D. Wilson In the middle of America (Wisconsin, to be precise), twelve-year-old Cyrus Smith and his older siblings Antigone and Daniel are living their everyday hum-drum lives....
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A Beautiful, Lyrical, Magical Story
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton This is, without question, one of the best and most beautifully written books I’ve read in several years. Ava Lavender is a normal...
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